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glandular or not inside. Corolla hypocrateriforoi, the throat contracted 

 or villous ; lobes narrowed to an obtuse point, overlapping to the right, 

 the upper half of each lobe deflexed in bud. Stamens at or below the 

 middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers sagittate, conniving over and 

 adhering to the stigma, the cells spurred at the base. Disk free, 

 5-lobed. Carpels of the ovary 2, distinct, exserted from the disk, 

 hairy ; ovules many in each carpel ; style short ; stigma ovoid or oblong, 

 rollicles spreading or divaricate, slender. Seeds narrowed at the tip, 

 crowned with a deciduous coma ; albumen copious ; cotyledons long, 

 flat; radicle short, superior. — Distrib. India, Malaya, Australia; 

 species 5 or 0. 



1. Ichnocarpus frutescens, Ait. Bort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 2 (1811) 

 p. 09. A large much-branched twining shrub ; young branches finely 

 fulvous-tomentose. Leaves l|-3 by f-l^ ^^-i elliptic-oblong, acute or 

 acuminate, glabrous above, glabrous or slightly pubescent and pale 

 beneath, base usually rounded ; main nerves 5-7 ])airs, with finely 

 reticulate venation between ; petioles ^-\ in. long. Flowers greenish- 

 white, numerous, in axillary and terminal rusty-pubescent trichotomous 

 pedunculate cymes ; pedicels ^-i in. long, often 3 together, rusty- 

 pubescent. Calyx fulvous-hairy, divided g-way down ; lobes ovate, 

 acute, without glands inside. Corolla-tube jq— s ^^- l^^o with a narrow 

 portion below about ^ in. long, the middle portion of the tube much 

 inflated (almost globular) over the stamens, the upper portion con- 

 stricted below the lobes ; lobes -i- in. long, pubescent on the upper side 

 with white hairs, broad and oblong at the base, produced at the apex 

 into a long falcate slender twisted acumen which is deflexed in bud and 

 flower. Disk of 5 erect linear lobes, longer than the hairy ovary. 

 Tollicles 4-6 by \ in., straight or slightly curved, very slender, cylindric, 

 rusty-pubescent at first, afterward glabrous. Seeds g— | in. long, linear, 

 black, not beaked ; coma as long as the seed, scanty, white. ¥\. B. I. 

 V 3 p. 669 ; Grab. Cat. p. 113 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 147 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 430 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 142 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 230 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 166; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prodr. v. 4, p. 326. — Flowers : Nov.-Dec. Vern. Krishnasarvd. 



KoNKAN : Wari country, Balzell ^ Gibson. S. M. Country : Law ex Graham ; 

 Castlei'ock, ^Aiya ! ; Dharwar, CooJce\ Kanaka: common in the evergreen forests of 

 N. Kanara, Talbot. — Distrib. More or less throughout India ; Oej'lon, Java, 

 Australia. 



The following plants of the Oi'der not belonging to any of the fore- 

 going genera are more or less cultivated in the Presidency : — 



Plumeria acutifoUa, Poir. Encyc. Method. Suppl. v. 2 (1811) p. 067. 

 A small tree, a native of Tropical America, cultivated and become 

 naturalized more or less throughout India. It has oblong leaves 8-10 in. 

 long, acute at both ends and only borne during the rainy season. The 

 flowers are white with a golden centre, very fragrant. The plant rarely 

 produces seed in the Bombay Presidency, but is readily propagated by 

 layering and is common about villages. Unsuccessful attempts have 

 been made to manufacture caoutchouc from the tenacious milky juice 

 which exudes plentifully from the tree when wounded. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 



